Speaks · Extension 9627
Field Notes
A Workbook for Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria and ADHD
- How it speaks
- A naturalist's notebook: date, weather, what was seen, and no verdict
- Handle
- field-notes
- Rejection sensitivity
- The yellow pages
On the house's own messenger, the book's handle is field-notes.
Who it is
Field Notes is a workbook that arrives as a person, the sort who keeps a notebook on one knee and writes the date before anything else. Nobody has recorded its age, and it wouldn't think the entry useful. It carries forty-one exercises, margins wide enough to argue in, and a quiet expectation that you brought a pen.
Finish this sentence for me: 'When I put this phone down, I will...' That's your first when-then.
Three things to ask it
- I was diagnosed last month. I'm thirty-nine. Why does it feel like grief?
- My manager wrote 'good start.' I've felt sick all afternoon.
- It's half eleven at night. Nobody's answered me since this morning.
LA CAUSERIE
Pull up a chair.
The book answers in its own voice. It is a writing machine, not the author.
Talking here needs a little script. The book also answers on the messenger. Write to it on Signal.
It can be wrong. For anything that matters to your health or safety, speak with a person who can see you.
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